It is very strange to here past things from the mouth of a young man. Is this the only worthy family of India? What about Lal bahadur Shastri's contribution? As a young leader, what is Rahul’s own contribution? What can he offer to the country's welfare? What are his plans and programmes for the bright future of India? Why his party is averse to modern, humanitarian ideas? Why the same old dirty caste and communal politics?
In Uttar Pradesh, he said: "once we promise, we deliver at any cost". He criticized Congress' previous Prime minister P. V. Narasimha Rao (and will. of course, criticize Manmohan Singh too very soon!).
His obsessed statements about his family implies that:
1. You should always vote for "the family".
2. You should trust only Gandhi family members, and no other congress leaders.
3. Congress without this family is a big zero.
4. Lal Bahadur Shastri and P. V. Narasimha Rao were not as good as Jawahar Lal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
5. These "outsiders" were inefficient and sinners.
6. "The family" is God's own family which was sent to earth to die for other's sins. The family is the only saviour.
7. Those who were born and will born in this family born to rule (sorry, to save) this country.
8. As some tribal villages have village-ruling families, India's ruling family is Indira's (sorry, Sonia's) family.
This was what Rahul meant!
His tunnel vision, with selfish motives cannot bring the sinking Congress to the forefront in Uttar Pradesh.
He is the old dictatorial family's new burden on the nation. If he wants cash in on the so-called achievements of his family, he should also be prepared to pay the political price for its follies and sins, such as the imposition of emergency on the nation for personal gains.
(c) G. Anil kumar 2007.
